In the game, students are “hired” by a fictitious chief technology officer to assess company security and issue a report at the end of the day to the CTO and to a CEO.

Explore website and data security

“We want them to explore how hard it is to break into and deface websites or into databases,” said Dan Massey, a computer science professor at Colorado State. “Students will learn to develop a report that is understandable, but not technically deep, for a CEO and a much more technical report for the CTO.”